Author: Grev

  • The Marginalian

    The Marginalian

    Hello. My name is Maria Popova and The Marginalian is a record of my reading and reckoning with our search for meaning: sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children’s books, always through the lens of wonder. Founded in 2006 as an email to seven friends under the outgrown name Brain Pickings and…

  • Trashtopia – Michael Goldrei Photography

    Trashtopia – Michael Goldrei Photography

    Trashtopia Trashtopia is my series of street photography of the street itself. While travelling through Cuba at the end of 2016, I started noticing discarded items in the street that looked very different to those back home in England. I decided to see whether you can tell the character of a place by its waste.…

  • On Being Podcast

    On Being Podcast

    The people who gather around On Being are part of the generative narrative of our time. In all kinds of lives, in all kinds of places, they are healers and social creatives. At human pace, they are enlivening the world that they can see and touch. In generational time, they are stitching relationship across rupture.…

  • Good Stuff

    Good Stuff

    In Being, we select relevant and ethical products and services that will help improve ‘quality of living’. Avoiding the use of unsustainable plastics and synthetic materials, simple ideas, solutions and amenities that are affordable, sustainable, reusable, and long lasting. Ecofiltro Website and Purchase

  • On Emotional Health

    On Emotional Health

    Aeon | Psyche Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts. Browse, scroll and navigate through the two sites within Sparky, or visit and/or subscribe safely to Aeon at psyche or aeon directly.  

  • Just Thinking …

    Just Thinking …

    Empathy over conflict, it’s all a matter of perspective Social Perspective – there are only two ways of responding to any challenging social circumstance or situation,  positively or negatively, these are basic responses in individuals within the wider community, especially when feeling vulnerable or under threat. Human nature being what it is, usually tends towards the negative, as in…

  • Asleep while Awake

    Asleep while Awake

    The image above: Come Hell or High Water by COCO AMARDEIL more about this image below Sleep – In a Nutshell What Happens When You Sleep? Written by  Eric Suni Last Fact Check – October 30, 2020   Medically Reviewed by – Dr. Ealena Callender Home /Sleep Topics/ What Happens When You Sleep?   When you sleep,…

  • Sean Scully at Sant Cecília

    Sean Scully at Sant Cecília

    Please see the earlier video below which was made at and by the Museu de Montserrat and is more direct by way of a depiction and sense of place and intervention by the artist. In July 2016, during a visit by Sean Scully to the Romanesque church of St. Cecilia, a video was recorded in which…

  • Broken Promises 2024

    Broken Promises 2024

    The Price of Certainty By Daniele Anastasion · Published NYT Nov. 1, 2016.   As we bear witness, in 2024, to the continued and almost unbelievable polarisation of politics in the United States, the gulf grows wider. As promises are broken, too many people desperate for certainty are led to believe that the other side…

  • Navigating the Nonsense

    Navigating the Nonsense

    Lesson 1 Ways to find the truth through evidence and Finding the truth amidst a sea of misinformation can be challenging, but here are some strategies to help you navigate through it: